“I guess the end justifies the means. At least that’s what I believe. Most of the time.”
DC Cameron Stone spent three months in intensive care before he could recall what happened: the high speed pursuit of a vice baron through the night streets of Glasgow that took the life of a teenage mother and her child. Then the message from Audrey on the back of a ‘get well soon’ card announcing that she had left him and taken their young son, Mark, with her. Booze, anti-depressants and therapy have all failed to enable him to resume his old job.
So now Stone lives in a one-room flat in the worst part of town. He pays the rent by running errands for a private detective. His tasks include tracking down a teenage runaway and surveillance for a woman who thinks her husband is sleeping with her sister. He’s also paid by his former colleagues, doing the work that’s not quite clean enough for them to do themselves-like putting the fear of God into any local scumbag who thinks he can’t be touched.
It’s been a bad week. Audrey has moved into the plush home of a plastic surgeon: and is getting difficult about access to Mark. He finds his runaway in a brothel and just gets roughed-up for his trouble. There’s the knife wielding kids on the stairs outside his flat and the daubing on his front door: Burn in Hell Baby Killer. The only brightness on his horizon is his growing friendship with Liz, the sunny Irish nurse who lives on the next floor.
But things are about to get worse for Cameron Stone… Somebody out there is out to destroy him and everything he loves- unless he can get to them first!
“There were some stunning debuts this year, but if I had to pick one it would be this world class Scottish thriller…
Shari Low, The Daily Record
“This great first book makes me want to read the next instalment – Ingram having promised some interesting times ahead for Cameron Stone.
Paul Blackburn, Eurocrime
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Scotland has a new crime detective: a big man with a big heart…and very few scruples. His name is Cameron Stone.